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I don't have the book (which I'm not going to get into since...), but what does your HTML and CSS for the entire page template look like? (And no, you should not be using absolute positioning for menus - unless it's the dropdown part of a dropdown menu.)

i was just trying to move it down slightly on the left from the h1 tag
i did try position relative and with a 30px shift down it seems to work but anymore and it loses the block click on the lower parts of the menu

If you wanted all the content to appear 30px below your header then you may be better applying a 30px bottom margin to the <h1> (btw you should also have text within your <h1> tags that will be displayed if CSS isn't available).

You may also have an issue with the footer being absolutely positioned as it may overlap your content and is presumably the issue you were experiencing with the navigation becoming unclickable?